More
important than ever: With most people in the U.S. and many other
countries ordered to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a
lack of Internet access in rural and poor areas is making people feel more
disconnected than ever, according to an Associated Press story at
NWAonline.com. Stella Ashcraft “lives from check to check and can’t afford
internet. Her senior-citizen center, where she plays bingo, does puzzles and

The Corona pandemic has made us all painfully aware of how dependent we are on tech companies. This should not put an end to critical debates around tech regulation but reinforce the argument to treat these companies as what they are: public utilities. An article by Timo Seidl. Just a few months ago, in what…
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Die Lage als Chance begreifen: Mit sehr persönlichen Worten macht die Rektorin Studierenden und Beschäftigten Mut, dass wir alle gestärkt aus der Krise hervorgehen. Gemeinsam lässt sich Vieles schaffen. Zahlreiche Strukturen werden technisch aufgerüstet, digitale Lehrformate vorbereitet.

How much screen time is good for my child? How much control is necessary?

“No economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.” –  Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist, 1932 -2019

A national conversation has begun which is alarming, yet also familiar. It talks about costs and trade-offs, losses and accounts. It is a conversation about human lives framed in the language of economics.

"Stay at home" is the federal government's demand. But what if " staying at home " is just as dangerous as, or even more dangerous than, the coronavirus? Especially for people in abusive relationships, the "contact ban" can have side effects. This article deals with the challenges of people who are exposed to emotional or physical violence in a supposed shelter and in times of exceptional situations.

By Vedangini Bisht and Shubham Chaudhary INTRODUCTION On March 4, 2020, the Supreme Court of India, in the case of Internet And Mobile Association Of India v Reserve Bank Of India, overturned the April 2018 circular of Reserve Bank of India. The 2018 RBI circular had banned all the RBI regulated entities from trading in […]

Den Anfang macht Ökonom Prof. Dr. Jens Südekum, seit dem Jahr 2014 Professor für Internationale Volkswirtschaftslehre am Düsseldorfer Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), mit einem Beitrag zu den wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise. Jens Südekum gehört laut Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung zu den fünfzehn einflussreichsten deutschen Volkswirten. Im Dezember 2019 wurde er in den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) berufen und berät Bundesminister Peter Altmaier unabhängig in allen Fragen der Wirtschaftspolitik.

Marcela Jirón, académica de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas y experta en farmacología y farmacia clínica, ofrece recomendaciones sobre el cuidado de adultos mayores por COVID-19, enfatizando en el llamado a seguir las pautas entregadas por autoridades de gobierno y de sociedades médicas.

Una de las certezas que existen en torno al COVID-19 es su rápida propagación y su mayor afectación -incluso mortalidad- en personas mayores y portadores de enfermedades crónicas.

"En un entorno tecnológico y convergente, con miles de fake news y sobreabundancia de información, de variada reputación, evidencia y utilidad, tenemos la tarea prioritaria de ser buenos comunicadores", señala en la siguiente columna de opinión el periodista y profesor del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Raúl Rodríguez, quien reflexiona sobre el rol de los medios de comunicación y las y los comunicadores en medio de esta pandemia. Una vez más nos ponemos a prueba.

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